Chapter 44: What Just Happened?

Chapter 44: What Just Happened?

A gun was fired carelessly and blood splattered on the ground as the bullet had burrowed right through someone's forehead and fortunately for Sam, it wasn't his.

Sam was surprised that he wasn't shot and looked over his shoulder to see Max dead on the floor. He was relieved that the bullet wasn't for him but he knew what would happen if the zombies heard it, they would swarm the area.

Sam was puzzled as John didn't even point the gun at him but instead, strapped it on himself as he continued to try and get the door open.

"I always hated that fucker! Hey! Are you going to help me get this shit open?" John asked.

Sam didn't want to question it because John could easily have killed him if he wanted to at that very moment but he spared him.

He instead chose to kill his partner, which was strange but it also told Sam that this man had no sense of loyalty even though he didn't know the nature of their relationship.

Sam quickly rushed to aid him, the fact that he didn't kill him now meant that he needed him for some reason. Be it for security or to help protect him better because in actuality, Sam knew that killing Max at that moment was the most logical thing to do as he had essentially crippled the man and rendered him ineffective so maybe this man was playing the long game?

Sam helped as the body was moved and the door finally opened and beyond that door was an arsenal of weapons.

"Fucking jackpot!" John exclaimed as he rushed forward, Sam couldn't believe that the armory hadn't been raided yet but he was happy that it wasn't because now they had the necessary weapons to defend themselves for the time being.

"Hey, man! We did it!" John said to Sam, including him in this celebration.

"Why didn't you kill me?" Sam asked right there and then.

"For real!? Who is she? I have a type though. It might sound weird but I like girls that are manly-looking," Sam said with an embarrassed face and an awkward silence followed.

John looked him right in the eyes and Sam hoped he hadn't caught on but if he did, he was ready to dispatch him to the afterlife.

"Fuck! Trust me! The girl we will be fucking has all the muscles you can handle!" John reassured him.

"I see, so these are the men after her..." Sam thought to himself, his acting was impeccable and he extorted the information he was looking for by playing the fool.

Sam also knew that this man might be the key to getting to the settlement that Bella spoke about but he had a decision to make.

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Clementine, amidst her thought, a gunshot echoed in the distance. Due to the baby not making a sound; the zombies no longer had a reason to be saturated here and they began walking in the direction of the gunshot but the dogs bolted on all fours like vicious beasts.

They left the other zombies behind but this was good for Clementine, she didn't need to do anything to get out of this situation because it had resolved itself.

"Sam, you better be fine!" Clementine said under her breath because the gunshot was coming from that direction.

She knew that Sam could handle himself and that was why she wasn't about to worry about him but she also thought that the gunshot was to signify that he had gotten the guns.

In which case, Clementine had to get the hell out of her, thanks to the baby being in the womb of a zombie, the other zombies couldn't perceive it and she didn't need to cover it in the guts of zombies but she didn't know what to do with the boy.

She wondered if that was why the dogs were so vicious, were they reacting to him?

There was no way that this boy was immune to the virus but Clementine owed it to herself to find out just what he was.